ARGENTINE GOVERNMENT

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21831, 19 December 1932, Page 9

ARGENTINE GOVERNMENT

PLOT FRUSTRATED MANY BOMBS FOUND (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) BUENOS AIRES, December 18. (Received Dec. IS, at 6.30 p.m.) Declaring that a seditious movement to overthrow the Administration through a terrorist programme had been uncovered, the Argentine Government on Friday night called a meeting of Congress for Saturday to declare a state of siege. The former Presidents Marcelo de Alvear and Hipolito Rigoyen and the Radical leader (Adolfo Guemcs) were arrested along with 30 former police and army officials. The arrests came after the seizure by the police of 1000 bombs, allegedly for use in a nation-wide plot by the extremists. The Government published a declaration that the plan was to kill high officials and seize the public buildings. The announcement said the plot was frustrated and the State siege would be short —only long enough to complete the means of defence. A later accidental explosion revealed a store of bombs in a suburb of Flores. The occupants fled, but the police found a list of 60 uames and started making arrests. The War Minister said the army was not involved in the movement, which, he said, was scheduled for outbreak on Friday in the interior ns well as in the capital State. An attempted Radical demonstration at Buenos Aires was quietly dispersed by large numbers of police on Friday night. BUENOS AIRES, December 17. (Received Dec, 18, at 6.45 p.m.) Congress, on Saturday night, approved of a 30 days’ state of siege as a move to forestall the attempted revolution which was disclosed on Friday. Meanwhile the police are making wholesale arrests of radical leaders. A former President, Trig Oyen, has been sent to Martin Garcia Island, where he had been exiled once before. Lieu-tenant-colonel Atilio Cattaneo (retired) confessed to the leadership of a nationwide subversive plot.